Added some chrome

Over the last week we got a few big things accomplished.  We finished fitting the rest of the splash guards and temporarily installed the rear ones.  I'll put the front ones in after the exhaust gets finished.  I also installed the front and rear bumpers, which requires lowering the gas tank for the rear ones.  The painter instructed me not to tighten anything that pushes against the paint too hard for 3 months.  So, I'll have to lower the tank one more time in September to snug up the bumper bolts.  We also installed the roll bars along with the trim.  The Lemans gas cap is in as well.  I rotated it a bit after reading that some people get wind noise when it opens straight back.  I also installed the rear lights and tested them again.  The windshield came back out and I was able to fix one of the screws that holds the post to the windshield frame.  I used clear nail polish as locktite on those screws.  It was one of the things they taught us at build school.

Next on the schedule for this week is to bolt in the windshield, install the headlights and front turn signals, license plate bracket and light and side mirror.  The other thing that I am planning on this week is finishing up the windshield wipers.  This is another one of those things that I am dreading.  I'm pretty sure I have it figured out, but it is not going to be fun.  If Michigan didn't require them I would not have gone through the trouble.  This car doesn't have a roof and never will, so I will be avoiding the rain.

Picked up the body on 6/11/15

A little over a week ago, we went up to Howell and picked up the body.  We took the chassis up on a U-haul trailer using a friend's truck.  We were able to install the body with the chassis still on the trailer.  That part only took about 5 minutes.  It took a total of about 4 hours to get the hood, trunk, doors and bumper bolts in.  One of the unfortunate things about the design of this car is that I have to lower the gas tank every time I need to get to the rear bumper bolts.  I took the chassis up there with very little gas, to make that part a little easier.  In fact, I had so little gas in it that when I tried to drive the car off the trailer when we got home it died after about 10 seconds.  Lowering the tank with it on the trailer was actually really easy and the trailer held the tank in a great spot while I played with the bumper bolts.

The white paint on the hood scoop was a little off.  For some reason some of the blue bled though.  We left it up there and the painter will be mailing it to me after it gets repainted.

There is still a lot of work to do.  I had to make new aluminum pieces to go around the radiator in the nose of the car.  The radiator I went with sits in the middle of the opening, but the Factory Five one sits off to the driver's side a little.  That meant that the 3 pieces of aluminum that came with it did not fit.  I had ordered some plain sheets of aluminum and had to bend them to fit.  I made my own little break on the workbench to bend the pieces.  It came out really well, but took a few days.  I also got the front splash guards that go in the rear of the wheel wells to fit (after making a new one for the driver's side).  This week I'll be fitting the rear ones, installing the Lemans gas cap, bumpers and the roll bars.  More pics next weekend.